IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Started on his quest some forty years ago by Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, JOHN A. LOMAX, of Dallas, Texas, has carried into the second generation, through the skillful assistance of ...